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Access arrangements for the 11+ are decided by your admission authority, not by a national rulebook. Here is how to find out which body decides, what evidence it will demand, and what to do if it says no.
VAT on private school fees is real and precisely dated, but the official application data shows no national grammar school surge. Here is how to tell which claims hold up, and what actually decides whether your child gets a place.
Two official figures for home education are in circulation and they are not interchangeable. Here is what 126,000 and 175,900 each mean, why no honest UK-wide total exists, and how much of the rise is better counting.
A precise, dated guide to what section 7 actually requires, what a local authority can and cannot make you do, and which parts of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 are genuinely in force.
Grammar schools do not look for a type of child. They run a published, legally governed allocation procedure, and passing the test is usually only eligibility, not currency.
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